List of Tables
Table 1 Main components of genre knowledge proposed in previous studies·········2
Table 2 A framework of genre knowledge for intercultural communication··········9
Table 3 Studies on Method,Result and Discussion in the four stages·················17
Table 4 Communicative function codes and content codes·····························48
Table 5 A comparison between the findings of metatext analysis and move analysis················································································51
Table 6 The range of each move in Introductions and Literature Reviews···········57
Table 7 A key word map of contrastive genre analysis studies·························64
Table 8 A comparison between Chinese and Western epistemology··················74
Table 9 Corpus description··································································78
Table 10 The number and percentage of opening sections containing the moves···81
Table 11 The length and proportion of each move in the three sub-corpora··········82
Table 12 The number of theses employing each step in the realization of Move 1···············································································86
Table 13 The number of theses employing each step in the realization of Move 2A············································································89
Table 14 The number of theses employing each step in the realization of Move 2B·············································································91
Table 15 The number of theses employing each step in the realization of Move 3···············································································93
Table 16 The number of theses employing each step in the realization of Move 4···············································································94
Table 17 The move model·································································109
Table 18 The number of theses containing each move and metatexts in the five groups········································································113
Table 19 The median of standardised length of each move in the five groups·····114
Table 20 Significant differences revealed by the post-hoc test(LSD)···············117
Table 21 The distribution of texts over research traditions····························120
Table 22 The schematic structure of the opening section of master’s theses········128
Table 23 Intercultural genre knowledge of master’s thesis····························129
Table 24 A key word map of genre-based instruction studies·························135